A Rhetorial Question: What Is Your Life?

LET US ASK A RHETORIAL QUESTION: FOR WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? CAN LITTLE PEOPLE RE-WRITE FAMILY HISTORY?

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com Watch YouTube: Wade Hughes

WHAT MEAL WOULD YOU ORDER IF YOU KNEW IT WAS YOUR LAST? WHAT TALE ARE YOU TELLING?

SEVERAL YEARS AGO I WAS WITH A 38 YEAR OLD MAN ON DEATH ROW. At midnight we would take a walk to the death chamber. He was given his last request what to eat. He had ordered 2 REUBEN SANDWICHES AND CURLY FRIES. He ate the meal and we visited.

I read where JAMES EDWARD SMITH requested a “CLUMP OF DIRT” for his last meal. The prison officials denied his request and instead OF THE “CLUMP OF DIRT.” They gave him YOGURT.

A man named LAWRENCE RUSSELL BREWER put in his order for chicken fried steak, barbecue, pizza and ice cream. When it was delivered he started thinking about death and he never touched the meal.

One of the most unusual request was made by VICTOR FEGUER in 1963. Victor was in Iowa. He would be hung. Victor ordered ONE OLIVE WITH THE PIT STILL IN IT. After his death they found the PIT (SEED) IN HIS POCKET. One might wonder what message Victor was leaving behind. WHAT TALE ARE YOU TELLING?

JAMES ASKS A RHETORICAL QUESTION: WHAT IS YOUR LIFE? JAMES HAS A CHALLENGE HE PUTS BEFORE THE CHURCH. JAMES WAS TEACHING TIME IS FLEETING AND LIFE IS SO SHORT. WHAT TALE ARE WE TELLING? CAN I MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

James 4:14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. 15 For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

SOMEDAY THE BLANKET OVER ME WILL BE THE SOD. MY PERMANENT ADDRESS WILL BE SECTION? LOT? OF THE CEMENTARY. THERE WILL BE A COLD HEADSTONE THAT WILL HAVE DEC. 1951, A LITTLE DASH AND THE LAST YEAR OF MY LIFE. THE DASH WILL BE WHAT MATTERS. MY LIFE WILL BE “AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD.”

It is believed that MOSES wrote Psalm 90. He talked about 3 score (3 x’s 20 = 60) plus 10 =70 years. If by reason those 70 years will be stretched to 4 score (4 x’s 20 = 80) life will be like a vapor.

Psalm 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

**WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR HAS A LESSON THAT MACBETH SPOKE. “ IT IS A TALE TOLD BY AN IDIOT, FULL OF SOUND AND FURY SIGNIFYING NOTHING.”

MY QUESTION TODAY IS WHAT ARE WE DOING WITH OUR LIFE? IS WHAT I AM DOING DAILY WHAT THE STORY TOLD OF ME? DO I NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE IN MY COURSE OF ACTION? IS THE STORY THAT WILL BE TOLD WHAT I WANT OTHERS TO HEAR? AS A TALE THAT IS TOLD? DO WE SEE CLEARLY? IN OUR MENIAL DAILY LIIVING WE OFTEN DISTORT THE REAL ISSUES OF TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL VALUES. WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH A MIST, A FOG OF A TEMPORARY LIFE ACTING AS IF WE HAVE FOREVER.

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

LORD, TEACH ME TO NUMBER MY DAYS? YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO LIVE UNTIL YOU COME FACE TO FACE WITH DEATH. I WANT TO LIVE WELL AND WISELY. AT BEST LIFE IS FULL OF TROUBLE, SORROW, PAIN AND TRIALS. THE GRAVE IS SURE.

Psalm 39:4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

5 Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 90:10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Psalm 90:12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.